{"id":438230,"date":"2026-02-21T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438230\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:57:08","slug":"princess-kate-pictured-for-the-first-time-since-andrews-arrest-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438230\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate pictured for the first time since Andrew&#8217;s arrest | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine, who is known for her love of a range of sports, is the patron of the Rugby Football Union. Apparing in high spirits, the 44-year-old was pictured smiling as she wore purple to match the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine &#8211; who also sported a purple England Rugby scarf &#8211; was pictured alongside RFU President Deborah Griffin in the stands before the Guinness Men&#8217;s Six Nations match.<\/p>\n<p>The royal is known to be a dedicated supporter of English rugby, often participating in training drills and cheering from the stands.<\/p>\n<p>She is known for her hands-on approach and passionate, often competitive, having regularly attended matches.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine has also been previously dubbed as &#8220;sporty Kate&#8221; and has frequently participated in training sessions with players, demonstrating her own skills on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was arrested shortly after 8am on Thursday, which also happened to be his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>The King made a public appearance at Tolu Coker&#8217;s autumn\/winter 2026 show at London Fashion Week just hours after his brother&#8217;s arrest in Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>He was pictured sharing a laugh with Stella McCartney as they sat on the front row of a catwalk at London Fashion Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine, who is known for her love of a range of sports, is the patron of the Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,114127,119,223,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-438230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-princess-catherine","11":"tag-princess-of-wales","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}